Where is Tommy Lee Royce? And will Sgt Cawood hunt down TV's most menacing killer?

It’s been at the heart of pulsating story line with more twists and turns than a shortcut through the Pennines.

She’s already confronted her nemesis once with devastating results. But can she see that TV’s current scariest villain is banged up inside one 60-minute dose of thrilling drama tonight?

Can Royce REALLY get access to his son?

Like a Halifax Darth Vader, he's already terrified the poor lad by popping up on the school run and announcing: "I am your father."

But would any legal system give him rights as a dad, considering how the poor child came into the world? That’s one issue.

Another is – will Royce get to him through his own dodgy means?

Can Kevin Weatherill’s life ever been the same again?

We know he never meant for any of this to happen.

We know that all he wanted was to send his little girl to a good school. But how naïve and misguided can one unassuming factory accountant be? And will he feel the full weight of the law for his ill-informed but ultimately deadly crime plot?

We all make mistakes, but his is one big, fat hairy one – and there’s no turning back the clock for Steve Pemberton's character.

Will dodgy councillor Marcus Gascoigne be exposed for his drug dalliances?

Catherine rumbled smarmy Gascoigne for the cocaine he had tucked away in his boy racer in Episode 2.

So why does her senior officer want it brushed under the carpet? A sub-plot so far, but one that's ready to explode.

And will bent police chief Praveen Badal be rumbled?

In a TV world where the good guys conquer and the bad guys get their pants kicked by lady cops, there’s no way Badal will be allowed to get away with it.

Comeuppance, please.

Will Catherine get back with ex-husband Richard?

More pertinently, do we want her to? Sounds like their marriage was a decent one that just couldn’t survive the trauma of their daughter’s awful death.

We know they’ve been seeing each other (if a quick how’s-your-father in the back of a Ford Fiesta counts) behind his new wife’s back, but somehow, we think we’re in the mood for ‘forgive and forget’.

Will little Ryan and his estranged granddad be reunited?

Our hearts broke in two when troubled, mother-less Ryan asked if ‘that man’ was his granddad – and if he’d like to come over to play football. Grandad Richard knows what he needs to do.

Can he find it in his heart to show him a grampy’s love?

Exactly why did Catherine fall out with son Daniel?

What's this rift all about? We just don’t know.

The family has had its share of heartbreak. That's got to be at the heart of this complex mother-son breakdown.

Can Catherine’s issues with her challenging grandson be resolved?

Who didn’t feel the pangs of despair at Catherine’s child-induced outburst last week?

Be honest, any parent has known that feeling of ‘what the hell have you done to my life’ on the odd occasion. But not many of us are single-handedly raising the child of our dead teenage daughter whose absent father is a rapist and on-the-run murderer.

After all, as wife Julie hilariously pointed out last week: ‘We’ve got caravans. We’ve got a games room that caters for people in wheelchairs.’

We’ve got 20 kilos of cannabis stashed away in a two-birth static, too, it turns out. So he’s clearly a bad ‘un. Incidentally, has anyone spotted the family resemblance? Actor Joe Armstrong is the son of New Tricks star Alun Armstrong. Dead ringers, we think.